Hi all, I've done my first install (ppc linux 7.0 on b&w g3) and (naturally) have a couple of problems/questions. firstly, I get a strange error each time I boot into linux (including from the cd) .. the very first line of text I see even before the "boot:" prompt is "wrong partition 1 signature" . It doesn't seem to be fatal, the system still boots but I'd be interested to know what it means. I can't get a ppp connection to work.. I set the wvdial.conf file the way I want it and have myself added to the relevant groups and indeed when I try to connect it does successfully get a ppp connection.. but then it runs some script called ip-up and from there it all goes wrong. I get "default route failure" then "can't find address for www.suse.de" ... it seems to be falling back to some default install host or something, any ideas which file I should edit to get my ppp working? and lastly I tried doing the dual boot thing tonight and wound up with a flashing question mark. I followed the manual's instructions carefully:- 1) put suseboot on my boot (HFS) partition. 2) made that partition the startup disk. 3) booted into linux from cd1 4) edited (as root) lilo.conf - then ran lilo (I double checked I had set the correct address for the boot partition, this seemed to work perfectly) 5) rebooted and got a flashing question mark... I booted the mac from the mac system cd and restored my original startup disk, the mac booted up fine and I checked the files in suseboot .. os-chooser now looks like a finder icon so lilo must have done something right. I never renamed os-chooser to "Mac OS ROM", dunno if that might be the problem but the machine didn't complain when I selected my boot partition as the start up disk. Here's my partition tables (at least the relevant partitions) as I understand them to be:- MacOs /dev/hda5 boot /dev/hdb8 root /dev/hdb10 swap /dev/hdb9 as you can see I have linux and macos on seperate disks. sorry to ask so many questions in one post but I thought I'd save some time.. many thanks, Jonathon. -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441@student.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________